Book #118 of 2019: The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi A fun story of a thirteen-year-old girl’s (mis)adventures at sea in 1832. Acclaimed children’s author Avi nails the nineteenth-century setting and the nautical feel of this piece, and his plucky heroine comes across as a female version of Treasure Island’s Jim Hawkins, holding …
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